HOPIFICIO – White Musk

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The name is stylized like H2OPIFICIO—as in water—not sure what that means—I’m too weary to much care. The “White Musk” part is intriguing—I’m not going to paraphrase all the speculative bullshit about the fragrance with that name—if the readers are interested, the readers can make their own inquiries. I might look into it myself, later. Anyway, it’s different than “musk”—which is also a word with many meanings—when it comes to scents. This is a fancy-pants Italian soap (nice packaging, both tasteful and tacky)—it’s another one for giving as a gift—and leaving untouched in the powder room. The mile-long list of chemically ingredients scares me, as does the aggressive perfume—it smells a bit like funeral flowers—I like it, but I don’t know if I want it to join me in the bathtub. So… I don’t know if rich people use this soap—probably not—but what do rich people use? I’m sure it varies (I would hope), but that gives me an idea for a new product business. I was thinking about when I worked a few days at the coat check at the U.N.—those coats just felt different (some rich, maybe, some important diplomats, all international). What if we were able to market, somehow, the scent of celebrities? (I mean it would just be a sanctioned rundown of their fragrance products in affordable, temporary form—not their actual body odor, gross.) I think people would go for it, some people, those smell-centric inclined. And for the rich people, a way to make more money without really doing anything.

Soap Review No. 178